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143Corn in theancient Near EastA correspondent reported to me that he had caught a lot of flakafter writing that "the three most important agricultural productstraded in the Roman world – grain, wine and olive oil – wereabundant and they created a very wealthy class of merchants.Great care was also taken to secure the routes needed tomaintain a constant supply of corn from Egypt and Africa tofeed the population of Rome.""I got a lot of flak for that statement," he said.He pointed out that, while he was aware that corn in theancient languages also came to mean "grain", he was also a firmbeliever in the Scriptures and as such the idea that corn (maize)was a product initially of the Americas did not set well withhim. Especially since the Scriptures say of Pharaoh's dreamaround 1700 BC concerning ears of corn: "Seven ears of corncame up upon one stalk, rank and good." (Genesis 41:5)He noted that the four times in the Bible where thephrase "ears of corn" are used (Genesis 41:5, Ruth 2:2, Job24:24 and Isaiah 17:5), in each case they speak of corn just aswe do, not as wheat, barley or any other cereal grain.He also hadn't found a language that doesn't have the word"corn" in it.His question was: "Since all plants after the Great Flood hadto originate in the region of modern day Turkey with Noah, andcorn (maize) being a manufactured plant from an unknownsource, it had to have been developed with Noah. So what proofis there that maize (corn) was known in the ancient world priorto its reintroduction to Europe after the fall of Rome?" Tim CaseMY ANSWER WAS: Indeed, you are correct. Anyone whosends you flack for your claims is reacting from ignorance.

15There exist records of corn being grown from as early as thetime of Abraham in Assyria and Babylonia, and it was grownalso in Russia, Asia Minor, Egypt and Africa.1. Hammurabi CodeHammurabi's Code of Laws (2000 to 1500 BC) wasunearthed in Mesopotamia some years ago. Note carefully thefollowing laws it contains:“49. If any one take money from a merchant, and give themerchant a field tillable for corn or sesame and order him toplant corn or sesame in the field, and to harvest the crop; if thecultivator plant corn or sesame in the field, at the harvest thecorn or sesame that is in the field shall belong to the owner ofthe field and he shall pay corn as rent, for the money hereceived from the merchant, and the livelihood of the cultivatorshall he give to the merchant.“50. If he give a cultivated corn-field or a cultivated sesamefield, the corn or sesame in the field shall belong to the ownerof the field, and he shall return the money to the merchant asrent.“51. If he have no money to repay, then he shall pay in cornor sesame in place of the money as rent for what he receivedfrom the merchant, according to the royal tariff.“52. If the cultivator do not plant corn or sesame in the field,the debtor's contract is not weakened.“53. If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in propercondition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and allthe fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the breakoccurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace thecorn which he has caused to be ruined.“54. If he be not able to replace the corn, then he and hispossessions shall be divided among the farmers whose corn hehas flooded.“55. If any one open his ditches to water his crop, but iscareless, and the water flood the field of his neighbor, then heshall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.“56. If a man let in the water, and the water overflow theplantation of his neighbor, he shall pay ten gur of corn for every

16ten gan of land.“57. If a shepherd, without the permission of the owner of thefield, and without the knowledge of the owner of the sheep, letsthe sheep into a field to graze, then the owner of the field shallharvest his crop, and the shepherd, who had pastured his flockthere without permission of the owner of the field, shall pay tothe owner twenty gur of corn for every ten gan.” (Translated by L.W. King)2. The Paris Michaux StoneThis monument, an ovoid basalt stone of seventeen inches inheight, by twenty-four in circumference, was discovered nearthe Tigris, not far from the ruins of the ancient city of Ctesiphonand brought to France in 1800. It records ancient Babylonianprivate contracts.Since 1801, it has been kept in the "Cabinet des Médailles" atParis (No. 702). It was published by M. Millin in 1802 (Monumentsinédits t. I, pl. viii, ix) and written up in scholarly publications (e.g.Münter’s Religion der Babylonier, p. 102, pl. III and the Bulletin Archéologique del'Athénéum Français). The inscription was also published by SirHenry Rawlinson in W.A.I., Vol. I, p. 70 and by Fox Talbot inthe Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XVIII, p. 54.Column 1:“20 hin of corn is the quantity for seeding an arura .[1] Thefield is situated near the town of Kar-Nabu, on the bank of theriver Mekaldan, depending of the property of Kilnamandu.“The field is measured as follows:[2] Three stades in lengthtoward the East, in the direction of the town of Bagdad; threestades in length toward the West, adjoining the house ofTunamissah; 1 stade 50 fathoms[3] in breadth toward the North,adjoining the property of Kilnamandu; 1 stade 50 fathoms up inthe South, adjoining the property of Kilnamandu.“Sirusur, son of Kilnamandu, gave it for all future days toDur-Sarginaiti, his daughter, the bride[4] of Tab-asap-Marduk,son of Ina-e-saggatu-irbu (the pretended), who wrote this; andTab-asap-Marduk, son of Ina-e-saggatu-irbu, who wrote this inorder to perpetuate without interruption the memory of this gift,and commemorated on this stone the will of the great gods and

17the god Serah.” (Documents juridiques de l'Assyrie et de la Chaldée, par J.Oppert et J. Ménant, Paris, 1877)Note: The field of Kilnamandu was a rectangle of 1-5/6 stadesin breadth and 3 stades long, viz., 5-1/2 square stades,amounting to 19.64 hectares, or 48-1/2 English acres. The Stoneof Micheux is the only one which affords a valuation of theland. The arura (great U) is valued at 88 hectares, 207 acres inthe Babylonian system; a hin is almost 3 litres, or 5 pints and aquarter; 20 hins, therefore, are somewhat more than 13 gallons.The fertility of the Babylonian soil was renowned in antiquity.(See Herodotus i. 193)3. Russia, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Africa“In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. it was possible forAthens to feed the subjects of her empire by importingprovisions from south Russia and Thrace, and for most otherGreeks to live on food-stuffs imported from Italy and Sicily; but[after the time of Alexander] this was possible no longer.“South Russia exported as before considerable quantities ofcorn, fish, hides, and other raw material, chiefly from part of theCrimea, the valley of the Kuban, the coast of the Sea of Azov,and the lower waters of the Don and Dnieper.“But in the third century B.C., and especially in the secondhalf of the century, the Scythian kingdom in Russia wasbroken up by invaders from the West. A great part of southRussia thus became less productive. “ The Greek world depended more and more on Egypt andAsia Minor for sustenance Egypt had the largest supplies ofgrain to dispose of. The kingdom of Pergamum also began toplay the same part, and was one of the chief sources of cornsupply of the end of the third century B.C. then and in thesecond century the African corn, grown in the territory ofCarthage and the Nubian kingdom, came into the market.”(Mikhail Rostovtzeff, A History of the Ancient World. Ch. xxv: “The Greek WorldAfter Alexander”, p.371)Other examplesFrom China: During the Dragon Mountain Age (about 4000

18years ago), cultivation of rice became popular. A system of cropplanting including corn (maize), millet, rice, wheat and soybeanhad been established in the Zhongyuan Region for some time. Inaddition, families began to raise cows and sheep.An ancient Chinese book, now in the Library of Paris, from ca1500 BC has drawings of corn (maize) ears and stocks.From Europe: Grains of corn (maize) have been found in theancient homes of the Athenians (ca 500 BC).From Egypt: The ancient Egyptians (ca 1800 BC) celebratedtheir harvest festival in honor of Min, God of Vegetation andFertility. The festival of Min was held during the springtime.the Egyptian's harvest season. It featured a parade in which eventhe Pharaoh took part. After the parade a great feast was heldcomplete with music, dancing, and sports. When Egyptianfarmers harvested their corn (maize), they wept and pretended tobe grief-stricken in order to deceive the spirit which theybelieved dwelt within the corn. If this was not done, they fearedthat the spirit would become angry when they cut down the cornin the place where it lived.From India: We photographed and studied the Hoysalatemples at Somnathpur, Belur, and at Halebid in 1986. Dozensof other Hoysala temples may contain similar "maize" carvings.(Ibid., p. 164)Many temples in South India contain abundant stone carvingsof maize ears. They are depicted being held erect in the hands ofattendants to the gods with very specific hand symbols(mudras), always with thumb and index finger touching andmiddle finger extended along the axis of the ear. (Ibid., p. 170)There is a great number of those carved representations in thethree temples discussed in the article.In Somnathpur, we find two male and 63 female attendants tothe deities holding the "maize ears". (Ibid., p. 170)The following temples are also reported to have similarcarvings, Sravana Belagola, a Jain Temple complex, 8th centuryAD; Boddgaya Temple, 1st century BC; and a Rajasthan(Kuvera) Temple, 8th century AD. . [They are] comparablewith those [of the temples under discussion]. (Ibid., p. 175)And there are many more others. So one thing that cannot be

19doubted is the wide presence of corn in India in those ancienttimes. These are no flukes.this maize-like fertility symbol musthave been present long enough before the 12th-13th century ADfor it to have been incorporated into the religious symbolism inmany Hoysala temples. (Ibid., p. 171)And Maize is so tightly integrated at the Somnathpur, Belur,and Halebid temples that it might even be postulated that maizewas the cause celebre of the Hoysala Dynasty. (Ibid., p. 179). it [corn (maize] appears to be a dominant staple for many(perhaps all) of the "Hill Tribes" in India and the Himalayanpeoples up to about 1,700 m (8,000 feet). (Ibid., p. 176)This alone, to me, is a strong indication of antiquity. It is amatter well-known to anthropologists that the higher one goesinto the mountain areas, the more ancient and the moreindigenous the tribes residing there are. Usually, invading tribesthroughout history come in from the plains and push theprevious residents (the more indigenous peoples) to less fertileareas at higher elevations.In the remote valleys in the Himalayas such as Tashigang inBhutan and Ilam in eastern Nepal, we find primitive popcornswith seven to nine ears per stem, all concentrated in the upper20% of the stem. Similar "Sikkim primitive" popcorn was alsorecorded [elsewhere in Sikkim] [and] in northeastern India.These stems have distinctive arrangements of leaves and earlocations and tassels that droop in a form not typical forAmerican maize. (Ibid., p. 177)

204Old laser-cut pictograph?I'm taking the time to write you because I believe that whatyou are doing is very necessary.When I was nine years old I used to swim in what had beenan old rock quarry in Janesville, Wisconsin USA. The quarryhad hit ground water and filled up, turning it into a small lake.While I was searching for rocks to skip across the water Ifound one that looked like it had been chipped off of a largerpiece. It was the perfect, flat rock.As I was about to throw it I saw to my amazement whatlooked like a very small pictograph.When I looked closer I realized that the detail was amazing.In black, as if burned onto the rock via laser, was this intricatedesign.In a space of three inches, roughly in diameter, was acityscape. In the air was a symbol shaped like an airplane. Fourstories up was a pot in the window with one sunflower in thepot. I saw cars and what looked like parking meters. And, I sawpeople on the street, walking.As I stared at it I realized that this was a fragment of a muchlarger mural. It was done in the style of a pictograph butvery stylized and modern.I thought at first that it was a joke and someone had planted itwaiting for me to find it. But, the only thing that could havemade the picture was something that burned it into the rock.Also, the detail was too small to have been done without amagnifying glass. I thought that someone could have designed itand made it with laser.But, at that time people didn't have ready access to laser.Besides, the time required to design the image, burn it into a flatrock and place it for me to find was a bit much.I found the rock under water, under sand, near the beach.What could I do with this? Who would believe it? What doesthis mean about our history?

21I skipped the rock. I didn't know what else to do. I skipped itand tried to forget that I ever saw the thing.But, your version of history makes sense out of this. The artwas done so long ago that it became embedded in the rock underground and was loosened when the quarry was being dug.The rock spent forever under water until I dug it out. Mostlikely, the world it showed was the world as it was at the time.I've heard stories that the Hopi Indians have records of the timebefore when shining buildings existed in North America.Steve Luiting, USA

225Newly Found MegalithicRuins In Russia ContainThe Largest Blocks OfStone Ever DiscoveredAn incredible discovery that was recently made in Russiathreatens to shatter conventional theories about the history of theplanet. On Mount Shoria in southern Siberia, researchers havefound an absolutely massive wall of granite stones. Some ofthese gigantic granite stones are estimated to weigh more than3,000 tons, and many of them were cut with flat surfaces, rightangles, and sharp corners. Nothing of this magnitude has everbeen discovered before. The largest stone found at themegalithic ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon is less than 1,500 tons. Sohow

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